Abstract
A review of the present needs, mainly for production of phycocolloids and food condiments, is given. Supply and demand vary from balanced, in some, to disproportionate in other fields. World-wide shortage of agarophytes contrasts with huge, unexploited beds of brown seaweeds.
In future, partly conflicting trends will decide the needs for algae and algal products. Growth in the human population, pollution, overexploitation of land and lack of freshwater will encourage use of seaweeds. Modern biotechnology will favour this development, but will also be a serious threat to industrial exploitation of seaweeds. Future uses of marine algae will be decisively influenced by the effort put into and the results coming out of seaweed research.
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Jensen, A. (1993). Present and future needs for algae and algal products. In: Chapman, A.R.O., Brown, M.T., Lahaye, M. (eds) Fourteenth International Seaweed Symposium. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 85. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1998-6_2
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